"We hoped for the best, and it turned out as usual."
- Bolshoi dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze quoting late Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jhumpa Lahiri, Cormac McCarthy, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth McCracken, Carson McCullers, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters.